Doctor's Daughters — Frank G. Slaughter

Each time the Great God Malone stepped into the operating room, the world anticipated another miraculous breakthrough in heart surgery. Only two things remained to crown his enormous success: the arrival at the prestigious Malone Heart Institute of a test candidate for his revolutionary artificial heart, and the birth of a legitimate son to bear his name. Theo Malone won't yield his power to anyone, espe­cially to his three beautiful daugh­ters, all successful doctors in their own right. But they've got enough drive to make it on their own. Lynn, actually a greater surgeon than her father, is torn between the man she loves and the father she hates, and her twin, Lisa, has proven herself the equal of her ego­tistical parent in both the fields of medicine and romance. Young Laurel, meanwhile, antagonizes Malone by helping to prevent the spread of an epidemic, inadver­tently uncovering a scandal that could ruin his reputation forever. A skillful probe into the highly dramatic inner workings of large city hospitals, DOCTOR'S DAUGH­TERS once again shows Frank G. Slaughter to be the peerless master of the medical novel.